Freshman Year Reading Response
- When Toshi (Japanese girl the author spoke to) said that people on campus she knew walked by like they never met, I find this relatable Bloomsburg students. I often see people I met and they wont approach me, but I am also guilty of doing the same thing. I think it is because some freshman meet a lot of people and its sometimes hard to talk to everybody when walking to class.
- "I don't get why students run out of class, packing up and running out immediately." -(Korean student) This is also true in all my classes. I do not know why we all do that. Most people just walk out the door and mind their own business. It seems like not that many people ever socialize when going/leaving for class.
In this reading the author talks to students from out of the country to get a better idea of student culture. Culture is hard to study when its your own, and the author gained a lot of interesting information about American students and some evidence of discrimination. She found that American students treat foreign students differently, and sometimes pretend like they don't exist. In group projects, the author found that foreign students were sometimes excluded from the American groups and forced to group together. She also wrote about a foreign girl who was roommates with an American girl. The American girl treated her roommate with disrespect and like she didn't exist.
This information is something I find relatable to Bloomsburg. I think transfer students and the American students get along.
- When Toshi (Japanese girl the author spoke to) said that people on campus she knew walked by like they never met, I find this relatable Bloomsburg students. I often see people I met and they wont approach me, but I am also guilty of doing the same thing. I think it is because some freshman meet a lot of people and its sometimes hard to talk to everybody when walking to class.
- "I don't get why students run out of class, packing up and running out immediately." -(Korean student) This is also true in all my classes. I do not know why we all do that. Most people just walk out the door and mind their own business. It seems like not that many people ever socialize when going/leaving for class.
In this reading the author talks to students from out of the country to get a better idea of student culture. Culture is hard to study when its your own, and the author gained a lot of interesting information about American students and some evidence of discrimination. She found that American students treat foreign students differently, and sometimes pretend like they don't exist. In group projects, the author found that foreign students were sometimes excluded from the American groups and forced to group together. She also wrote about a foreign girl who was roommates with an American girl. The American girl treated her roommate with disrespect and like she didn't exist.
This information is something I find relatable to Bloomsburg. I think transfer students and the American students get along.